Tips...I don't know if there's any concrete thingy I can tell you to work by. When I design, I think about things like the shapes, materials, colours, motion, practicality, and generally thinking about composition on the body. Probably the most important thing is to design for the character, not just design for the heck of it. A shy character will cover up, a show-off will dress to match, or reverse, or whatever you want, it can be more interesting. Think of what they'd choose to wear.

In terms of my pokes, my mantra is to go as far from the original as I can without losing the connection between the two.

I got lazy with this one. Sorry...
Yey my Pokes! I'm so in love with how Fer came out. <3 Lulz Star.

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Art by Jynsing and Pachibamu.

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Critique time! (no flames plz, lulz sj)
Those last four panels are really hard to read...did you mean to have the reader look at all three Beedrill, and then Machi? It might have worked better to have them each shown in three, parallel panels, then one panel of Machi underneath. Also, those crooked lines really take away from the suspense of the scene for me. D':

Haha, got linked here to read the comments. Pretty lulz, really.
I'm not posting to jump in on the flame wars, but really people...if someone wants to critique, why not? Critique is to help the creator better their work, so don't get all defensive right away. I wish I got more eloquent, helpful critique of my work. Hearing criticism hurts, I know, but don't "take a grain of salt with a spoonful of sugar" about it. Unless, of course, you're not looking for critique. In which case, you ought to specify such to avoid this kind of stuff.

Don't want this post to become tl;dr, but I'd like to add my critique to the bunch. Yes, you're very good at what you draw, which is very attractive characters. But when your readers say they trouble distinguishing them, maybe you need to focus a little more on the traits that make them different, besides hair. Eyes are very effective at this, so try lots of different shapes. Also, body language is huge! How a character holds themselves is very crucial to how they look. Also, body types. I see you've distinguished Voltorb from the bunch, which is really fantastic, so you could easily do something similar (though less extreme) with your other characters.

Remember, regardless of what story you want to tell, you are a storyteller, and one of the most important things to keep in mind is clarity, for your reader's sake.

And please, fans, read my whole comment before choosing to flame. I'm only trying to help D':